"To care, in the eye of action, exactly what's said," Fafhrd explained. "How civilized of you!" Fafhrd commented in pleased tones. "Seem? Surely must be!" the Mouser answered curtly, fiercely eyeing this potential new foe, who was taller by a head than the tall thief.
They were poised for attack yet for the moment neither moved.Įach discerned something inexplicably familiar in the other.įafhrd said, "Our motives for being here seem identical." Moments after their encounter as inadvertent allies in a thoughtful and daring ambush of two Thieves' Guild men on dark Cash Street, the two young heroes remain at the ready:įafhrd and the Gray Mouser faced each other across the two thieves sprawled senseless.
The two have come to Lankhmar only recently, and this story introduces us to exotic and noisome Lankhmar, and the two young heroes strikingly to each other. This story chronologically follows their separate introductions in " The Snow Women" and "The Unholy Grail", respectively. "Ill Met in Lankhmar" is a novella in Fritz Leiber's great fantasy series, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. This is not, however, an incentive for the two young men to join the Thieves' Guild rather to hone their wits against it, if not always cushion themselves with healthful prudence. The second and decisive meeting of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, wherein something is told of the ills of unending night-smog and organized thievery, of the drunkenness and vanity of beloved men and girls, and of the many wonders and horrors of the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes.Īs bravos but also rather determined free spirits, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser consider the Thieves' Guild in the city of Lankhmar to be dangerously well organized, indeed so powerful as to constitute almost an unofficial or shadow government within Lankhmar. Fritz Leiber's Contents-page teaser for "Ill Met in Lankhmar":
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